Dumping Objects - Kurzweil PC2R Musician's Manual

Dumping Objects

If you've created a lot of programs, setups, and effects settings, you may want to store them
externally, using a MIDI System Exclusive (SysEx) dump). This has several benefits: you can
load the objects into other instruments that accept SysEx; you can preserve them in a more
permanent backup archive (in case anything happens to the PC2R's battery-backed memory),
and you can create libraries of objects customized for particular performance or recording
situation.
You can dump objects to any MIDI recording device that accepts SysEx messages; most MIDI
sequencers manufactured today accept SysEx. A SysEx dump can consist of a single object of
any type, or all objects of a given type—it can also include all user-defined objects. You can
initiate most of these dumps from the Save dialogs of the Program, Setup, KB3 Editors, or the
save dialog in Effects edit mode. Each object you dump is a separate SysEx message.
When you enter one of these dialogs, the first thing you see is a prompt asking you whether you
want to save or replace an object (the object type depends on which edit mode you're in). The
prompt for dumping the object is at another location in the dialog, as you'll see.
You should prepare your MIDI recording device before initiating the dump. For example, if
you're dumping to a sequencer application, open the file to which you want to dump, and get
the application ready to record. Make sure you have a MIDI cable connected from the MIDI Out
port of the PC2R to the MIDI In port of the recording device. Don't start recording just yet,
however.
1. Enter the Save dialog by pressing Store. Depending on the edit mode you're in, you'll see
either a prompt to replace the current effect, or to save or replace the current program
(voice) or setup.
2. Press the Right cursor button repeatedly until you see a prompt asking you if you want to
dump a single object, or to dump all objects of the current type (the current type is
determined by the performance mode you were in when you entered the edit mode).
3. Start recording with the MIDI recording device, then press Yes on the PC2R's front panel.
4. The PC2R dumps the object or objects to the MIDI recording device as a normal file. The
display indicates when the dump is finished.
Reloading a Dump
1. Connect a MIDI cable from the MIDI Out port of the external device to the PC2R's MIDI
In port.
2. Initiate the dump or playback of the object file from your external device.
You don't have to put the PC2R in any special mode to receive the dump. When a dump is sent
back to the PC2R, the information goes to the memory location for the corresponding object
types.
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